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Alt

Alt (alt.xyz) is an alternative-asset platform for high-value graded trading cards, founded by Leore Avidar, who previously co-founded the address and print API company Lob. Alt lets collectors and investors research, value, buy, sell, vault, and borrow against slabbed cards in one place, spanning baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, golf, tennis, racing and combat-sports cards as well as Pokemon and other trading-card games. The platform combines a fixed-price marketplace, timed and "Liquid" auctions, an Instant Pricer, market-trend and research views, a physical vault in Delaware that removes sales tax from transactions, and card-backed lending. Its pricing engine, Alt Value, is a machine-learning model tuned by card-pricing specialists that produces a real-time value for every BGS, PSA and SGC card vaulted with Alt, and that value underwrites every trade, loan and product on the platform. Alt raised a $75M Series B in November 2021 led by Spearhead with Seven Seven Six and a group of professional athletes. Alt publishes no public developer program: there is no developer portal, API reference, OpenAPI definition, SDK, CLI, sandbox or self-service API signup. Its programmatic surface is the private backend behind the alt.xyz web and mobile applications (a FastAPI/GraphQL platform service, with the engineering organisation on GitHub as github.com/onlyalt), which integrates payment, identity-verification, authentication, lending-servicing and shipping vendors but is neither documented nor offered to third parties.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Alt the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Alt scores 18.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 18.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 3.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Alt Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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More shapes, themes and sizes → · Score as JSON · How badges work

How we profile Alt

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Alt. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Alt Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Alt — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/alt · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Alt, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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